How much do private coaches help the student?

Gwen_Fairfax
Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:49:46 +0000

As prodesse says, professional actors have coaches too-- just as writers have editors. That ‘other’ can be incredibly helpful. But–we tried one with pretty bad results. Others had recommended her but she was strangely critical and actually damaging to D’s confidence. D kept trying to make it work, which in retrospect was a mistake. So what’s my message? I guess that it’s like anything else, you often need some trial and error first. And don’t hesitate to look elsewhere if it doesn’t feel right.